The Family Tree Mosaic
As part of the sculptural outdoor classroom that I am working on at the moment for a school here in Dublin, I was asked to incorporate a...
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Happy New Year and reflecting back on 2012
Happy New Year everyone. I feel the need to write a new blog post as I have been neglecting to do so over the past six months or...
Feile na gCloch (Festival of Stone) 2012 Inis OÃrr Island
On the fourth weekend of September I once again headed off to Inis Oirr (Inisheer) on the Aran Islands for this year’s Feile na gCloch...
A trip to Co. Clare for some dry stone walling with the DSWAI
Last weekend the DSWAI had a meet up in County Clare as we were invited by quarry owner David O’ Connor of Liscannor Flagstones...
True love is set in stone
There is something very special about creating a piece of art in stone to celebrate a loved ones life. Probably the most unique and...
Drystone walling on the foot of The Rock of Cashel
On Monday a few of the members of the association met up at the foot of The Rock of Cashel to promote both the DSWA of Ireland and...
Roses are RED. The use of red in the landscape.
As it is Valentines Day today I thought it would be a good time to talk a little bit about one of my favourite colours to use in the...
Drystone Walling on Inis OÃrr Island
Last weekend I attended my first dry stone walling workshop on Inis OÃrr Island. And I am already looking forward to going back next...
Dry Arch construction at Drimnagh Castle for National Heritage Week
Just a very quick post to promote some very interesting things happening this week. This week is Heritage Week 2011 from 20th to the 28th...
More on Stone Benches
So I have talked about stone benches on a number of occasions, and now I am going to talk about them some more. I just had a lady asking...
Theater in the garden
Garden Theatres Although there are many grand Garden Theatres and huge impressive amphitheatres out there in the world, they are not...
Stone River, by Landscape Architect and Stonemason Jon Piasecki
Stone River is a project by award wining landscape architect and stonemason, Jon Piasecki. Jon Piasecki is a graduate of Harvard...
Stone seats, the building process.
A few months back I wrote a post ‘Stone Chairs. Some ancient some not so ancient…Yet….’ in which I mentioned that one of my favorite...
Stone Chairs. Some ancient some not so ancient…Yet….
One of my favourite things to build is stone seats. There is something very special about sitting in a stone seat, it feels very grand,...
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